Biography:Xiaoyu Luo

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Short description: Chinese and British applied mathematician

Xiaoyu Luo FIMechE FRSE (Chinese: 罗小玉,[1] born 1960[2]) is a Chinese and British applied mathematician who studies biomechanics, fluid dynamics, and the interactions of fluid flows with soft biological tissues. She is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Glasgow.[3]

Education and career

Luo was born in the UK[2] but grew up in Xi'an in a family of artists.[4] After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in theoretical mechanics at Xi'an Jiaotong University, in 1982 and 1985 respectively, she became a lecturer at Xi'an Jiaotong University. There, she studied for a Ph.D. from 1987 until 1990,[4][5] with a visit to the UK through a joint doctoral program with the University of Sheffield. When she earned her Ph.D. at Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1990, she became the first woman to do so.[4]

She moved to the UK in 1992 to become a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds. She worked as a lecturer in engineering at Queen Mary and Westfield College from 1997 to 2000, and in mechanical engineering at the University of Sheffield from 2000 to 2004, before becoming a senior lecturer in mathematics at the University of Glasgow in 2005. She was promoted to professor in 2008,[4][5] the first female professor of applied mathematics at Glasgow.[2]

In 2014 she was named a chair professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an.[2] She has also been a visitor to the International Center for Applied Mechanics at Xi'an Jiaotong University.[1]

Recognition

Luo became a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2004[4] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014.[3][4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "People", International Center for Applied Mechanics (Xi'an Jiaotong University), http://icam.xjtu.edu.cn/People.htm, retrieved 2020-09-25 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Professor Luo Xiaoyu from University of Glasgow was employed as "Chair Professor"of NPU, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 21 December 2014, http://en.nwpu.edu.cn/info/1175/1857.htm, retrieved 2020-09-25 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Professor Xiaoyu Luo FRSE, Royal Society of Edinburgh, https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/xiaoyu-luo/, retrieved 2020-09-23 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Curriculum vitae, University of Glasgow, https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~xl/CV.html, retrieved 2020-09-23 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Xiaoyu Luo", ORCID, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8753-4210, retrieved 2020-09-25 

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